Weds 24th and Thurs 25th September 2008. Those of us who will be arriving in Oxford on Tuesday night and want to meet for dinner and a drink will meet at the Far from the Madding Crowd pub (review) at 8pm. Those who are still around on Thursday night are invited to attend the Oxford SWIG meeting at The Lamb and Flag from 6:30pm - 8:30pm.

David has kindly reserved seventeen single rooms (the maximum they had free) at the Linton Lodge Hotel, Linton Road, Oxford (http://www.lintonlodge.com/), 400 metres up the road from Wolfson College, for the nights of Tuesday 23th, Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th September at the discount rate of £75 per person per night bed and breakfast. People wanting rooms must book these individually for the exact nights they need within this time window, by phoning the hotel on +44 (0)1865-553 461 using their own credit cards before the end of AUGUST, quoting reference number VOC2309, after which this block reservation will lapse.

Oxford has a mainline train station with frequent connections to Birmingham and London, also less frequent/fast connections westwards to Bristol, southwards to Southampton (I think) and by bus eastwards to Milton Keynes where there are also connections to Luton Airport. See http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ for train timetables. Oxford also has decent connections into the motorway network.

For those of you travelling from outside the UK, then Birmingham, London Heathrow and London Luton airports are all be pretty convenient for train/bus connections to Oxford AFAICT. London Gatwick, London Stansted, Bristol, Coventry and even Southampton may also be options, but YMMV. Of course Oxford is just a short train ride from central London, which is now less than two hours from Brussels by Eurostar (IIRC), so do consider coming by train if you can :)

The Oxford Brookes website helpfully has a list of main coach services running from London into Oxford [1]. (Ignore their links to the oxford bus company, who have no conception of permanent URLs ;) -> Infomation about the coaches to and from Heathrow and Gatwick can be found here [2])

When coming in to the VoCamp, the central Oxford coach/bus terminus is called "Gloucester Green".

The VoCamp event itself is free, although participants will need to pay for their own travel, accommodation and the evening meal at Wolfson College on Wednesday night (£30 a head including drinks, please bring cash, receipts will be available). Thanks to generous sponsorship from Talis lunches, tea and coffee will be provided without any charge. See also VoCampSupporters...

Participants, please list your name and any areas in which you're interested in creating vocabs (note: this is non-binding; it's also fine to list none). NB Only 20 places available this time, first come first served!

Matthias Samwald: Extensions to FOAF for use in corporations, extensions to SIOC for discourse representation, associative tags / structured tags for lightweight representation of facts, especially in the field of biomedical R&D

Ben O'Steen Semantically representing an academic work/research/data (implying author, dept, funder, etc represented as URIs), whisky sounds good, FOAF/SIOC/SKOS, oh and what about skos:disambiguates? (e.g. how to represent the links between http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_(disambiguation) and the links it portrays

Uldis Bojars: modelling user-generated content, extending SIOC and combining it with other vocabularies

Data publishing, sharing, visualisation ontology. An initial description of this ontology can be seen on the ImageWeb project wiki. At the time of writing, no formal schema or ontology has been generated.